Author | Walter Isaacson |
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Cover artist | Albert Watson |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Biography |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster (U.S.) |
October 24, 2011 | |
Media type | E-book, Print (Hardback and Paperback), and Audiobook |
Pages | 656 pp. |
ISBN | 1-4516-4853-7 |
Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Sub-Heading No. | Sub-Heading Title | Approx. AudioBook Mark |
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Introduction | How this book came to be | 00:00:00 | ||
Chapter 1 | Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen | 1.1 | The Adoption | 00:13:02 |
1.2 | Silicon Valley | 00:25:21 | ||
1.3 | School | 00:42:39 | ||
Chapter 2 | Odd Couple, The Two Steves | 2.1 | Woz | 01:05:56 |
2.2 | The Blue Box | 01:21:37 | ||
Chapter 3 | The Dropout, Turn On, Tune in... | 3.1 | Chrisann Brennan | 01:30:36 |
3.2 | Reed College | 01:35:05 | ||
3.3 | Robert Friedland | 01:46:22 | ||
3.4 | ...Drop Out | 01:54:33 | ||
Chapter 4 | Atari and India, Zen and the Art of Game Design | 4.1 | Atari | 01:59:40 |
4.2 | India | 02:06:39 | ||
4.3 | The Search | 02:15:38 | ||
4.4 | Breakout | 02:26:07 | ||
Chapter 5 | The Apple I, Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In... | 5.1 | Machines of Loving Grace | 02:33:32 |
5.2 | The Homebrew Computer Club | 02:42:29 | ||
5.3 | Apple is Born | 02:51:56 | ||
5.4 | Garage Band | 03:04:24 | ||
Chapter 6 | The Apple II, Dawn of a New Age | 6.1 | An Integrated Package | 03:13:27 |
6.2 | Mike Markkula | 03:23:38 | ||
6.3 | Regis McKenna | 03:34:26 | ||
6.4 | The First Launch Event | 03:38:11 | ||
6.5 | Mike Scott | 03:41:30 | ||
Chapter 7 | Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned... | 03:51:29 | ||
Chapter 8 | Xerox and Lisa, Graphical User Interface | 8.1 | A New Baby | 04:06:51 |
8.2 | Xerox PARC | 04:13:56 | ||
8.3 | Great Artists Steal | 04:22:35 | ||
Chapter 9 | Going Public, A Man of Wealth and Fame | 9.1 | Options | 04:32:45 |
9.2 | Baby You're a Rich Man | 04:38:28 | ||
Chapter 10 | The Mac is Born, You Say You Want a Revolution | 10.1 | Jef Raskin's Baby | 04:46:11 |
10.2 | Texaco Towers | 04:59:56 | ||
Chapter 11 | The Reality Distortion Field, Playing by His Own Set of Rules | 05:06:51 | ||
Chapter 12 | The Design, Real Artists Simplify | 12.1 | A Bauhaus Aesthetic | 05:26:42 |
12.2 | Like a Porsche | 05:34:31 | ||
Chapter 13 | Building The Mac, The Journey Is The Reward | 13.1 | Competition | 05:52:12 |
13.2 | End-to-end Control | 05:57:32 | ||
13.3 | Machines of the Year | 06:03:10 | ||
13.4 | Let's Be Pirates! | 06:09:32 | ||
Chapter 14 | Enter Sculley, The Pepsi Challenge | 14.1 | The Courtship | 06:26:07 |
14.2 | The Honeymoon | 06:42:37 | ||
Chapter 15 | The Launch, A Dent in the Universe | 15.1 | Real Artists Ship | 06:52:32 |
15.2 | The '1984' Advert | 06:59:25 | ||
15.3 | Publicity Blast | 07:08:24 | ||
15.4 | January 24, 1984 | 07:12:51 | ||
Chapter 16 | Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect | 16.1 | The Macintosh Partnership | 07:24:56 |
16.2 | The Battle of the GUI | 07:39:51 | ||
Chapter 17 | Icarus, What goes up... | 17.1 | Flying High | 07:47:33 |
17.2 | Falling | 08:03:16 | ||
17.3 | Thirty Years Old | 08:10:45 | ||
17.4 | Exodus | 08:15:37 | ||
17.5 | Showdown, Spring 1985 | 08:26:04 | ||
17.6 | Plotting a Coup | 08:39:18 | ||
17.7 | Seven Days in May | 08:43:15 | ||
17.8 | Like a Rolling Stone | 08:59:15 | ||
Chapter 18 | NeXT, Prometheus Unbound | 18.1 | The Pirates Abandon Ship | 09:08:55 |
18.2 | To Be On your Own | 09:27:34 | ||
18.3 | The Computer | 09:42:44 | ||
18.4 | Perot to the Rescue | 09:50:09 | ||
18.5 | Gates and NeXT | 09:55:41 | ||
18.6 | IBM | 10:00:51 | ||
18.7 | The Launch, October 1988 | 10:05:37 | ||
Chapter 19 | Pixar, Technology Meets Art | 19.1 | Lucasfilm's Computer Division | 10:18:42 |
19.2 | Animation | 10:29:53 | ||
19.3 | Tin Toy | 10:35:56 | ||
Chapter 20 | A Regular Guy, Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word | 20.1 | Joan Baez | 10:48:26 |
20.2 | Finding Joanne and Mona | 10:55:08 | ||
20.3 | The Lost Father | 11:03:58 | ||
20.4 | Lisa | 11:10:59 | ||
20.5 | The Romantic | 11:18:17 | ||
Chapter 21 | Family Man, At Home with the Jobs Clan | 21.1 | Laurene Powell | 11:31:43 |
21.2 | The Wedding, March 18, 1991 | 11:43:48 | ||
21.3 | A Family Home | 11:51:16 | ||
21.4 | Lisa Moves In | 12:02:15 | ||
21.5 | Children | 12:13:07 | ||
Chapter 22 | Toy Story, Buzz and Woody to the Rescue | 22.1 | Jeffrey Katzenberg | 12:16:46 |
22.2 | Cut! | 12:25:23 | ||
22.3 | To Infinity! | 12:32:35 | ||
Chapter 23 | The Second Coming, What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last... | 23.1 | Things Fall Apart | 12:42:10 |
23.2 | Apple Falling | 12:47:19 | ||
23.3 | Slouching toward Cupertino | 12:57:10 | ||
Chapter 24 | The Restoration, The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win | 24.1 | Hovering Backstage | 13:14:44 |
24.2 | Exit, Pursued by a Bear | 13:37:57 | ||
24.3 | Macworld Boston, August 1997 | 14:01:30 | ||
24.4 | The Microsoft Pact | 14:05:29 | ||
Chapter 25 | Think Different, Jobs as iCEO | 25.1 | Here's to the Crazy Ones | 14:16:28 |
25.2 | iCEO | 14:30:23 | ||
25.3 | Killing the Clones | 14:36:06 | ||
25.4 | Product Line Review | 14:40:50 | ||
Chapter 26 | Design Principles, The Studio of Jobs and Ive | 26.1 | Jony Ive | 14:49:26 |
26.2 | Inside the Studio | 15:01:45 | ||
Chapter 27 | The iMac, Hello (Again) | 27.1 | Back to the Future | 15:09:53 |
27.2 | The Launch, May 6, 1998 | 15:25:06 | ||
Chapter 28 | CEO, Still Crazy after All These Years | 28.1 | Tim Cook | 15:34:11 |
28.2 | Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork | 15:42:47 | ||
28.3 | From iCEO to CEO | 15:51:45 | ||
Chapter 29 | Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone | 29.1 | The Customer Experience | 15:59:31 |
29.2 | The Prototype | 16:05:49 | ||
29.3 | Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass | 16:15:58 | ||
Chapter 30 | The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod | 30.1 | Connecting the Dots | 16:24:58 |
30.2 | FireWire | 16:28:45 | ||
30.3 | iTunes | 16:36:07 | ||
30.4 | The iPod | 16:40:49 | ||
30.5 | That’s It! | 16:48:37 | ||
30.6 | The Whiteness of the Whale | 16:56:47 | ||
Chapter 31 | The iTunes Store, I'm the Pied Piper | 31.1 | Warner Music | 17:06:39 |
31.2 | Herding Cats | 17:19:12 | ||
31.3 | Microsoft | 17:32:39 | ||
31.4 | Mr. Tambourine Man | 17:42:46 | ||
Chapter 32 | Music Man, The Sound Track of His Life | 32.1 | On His iPod | 17:53:26 |
32.2 | Bob Dylan | 18:05:05 | ||
32.3 | The Beatles | 18:13:52 | ||
32.4 | Bono | 18:18:31 | ||
32.5 | Yo-Yo Ma | 18:31:21 | ||
Chapter 33 | Pixar's Friends, ...and Foes | 33.1 | A Bug's Life | 18:32:46 |
33.2 | Steve's Own Movie | 18:44:06 | ||
33.3 | The Divorce | 18:50:04 | ||
Chapter 34 | Twenty-First-Century Macs, Setting Apple Apart | 34.1 | Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers | 19:20:24 |
34.2 | Intel Inside | 19:26:52 | ||
34.3 | Options | 19:31:27 | ||
Chapter 35 | Round One, Memento Mori | 35.1 | Cancer | 19:41:35 |
35.2 | The Stanford Commencement | 19:52:09 | ||
35.3 | A Lion at Fifty | 19:56:07 | ||
Chapter 36 | The iPhone, Three Revolutionary Products in One | 36.1 | An iPod That Makes Calls | 20:16:05 |
36.2 | Multi-touch | 20:21:25 | ||
36.3 | Gorilla Glass | 20:30:04 | ||
36.4 | The Design | 20:35:25 | ||
36.5 | The Launch | 20:38:43 | ||
Chapter 37 | Round Two, The Cancer Recurs | 37.1 | The Battles of 2008 | 20:43:19 |
37.2 | Memphis | 21:01:25 | ||
37.3 | Return | 21:16:02 | ||
Chapter 38 | The iPad, Into the Post-PC Era | 38.1 | You Say You Want a Revolution | 21:22:39 |
38.2 | The Launch, January 2010 | 21:30:43 | ||
38.3 | Advertising | 21:44:29 | ||
38.4 | Apps | 21:51:15 | ||
38.5 | Publishing and Journalism | 21:58:20 | ||
Chapter 39 | New Battles, And Echoes of Old Ones | 39.1 | Google: Open versus Closed | 22:18:13 |
39.2 | Flash, the App Store, and Control | 22:27:46 | ||
39.3 | Antennagate: Design versus Engineering | 22:40:33 | ||
39.4 | Here Comes the Sun | 22:54:44 | ||
Chapter 40 | To Infinity, The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond | 40.1 | The iPad 2 | 22:57:34 |
40.2 | iCloud | 23:12:14 | ||
40.3 | A New Campus | 23:23:32 | ||
Chapter 41 | Round Three, The Twilight Struggle | 41.1 | Family Ties | 23:32:37 |
41.2 | President Obama | 23:49:08 | ||
41.3 | Third Medical Leave, 2011 | 23:58:04 | ||
41.4 | Visitors | 24:10:16 | ||
41.5 | That Day Has Come | 24:19:43 | ||
Chapter 42 | Legacy, The Brightest Heaven of Invention | 42.1 | FireWire | 24:32:27 |
42.2 | And One More Thing... | 24:50:55 | ||
42.3 | Coda | 25:01:48 |